Sanna Toivanen – Guest Movement teacher for Acting Summer Course
The IAB is very happy to welcome Sanna Toivanen to the IAB team for our IAB Summer Course. Sanna studied theatre and performing arts in her native country Finland where she also participated in different theatre groups before arriving to Barcelona, where she finished her studies in Corporeal Mime and physical theatre. She also has […]
IAB participates in ReciclArt 2019 – recycling and responsable art festival
Once again the IAB is happy to be taking part in the wonderful recycling and responsible art festival ReciclArt in Sitges, by collecting and donating plastic caps and bags for the art pieces, as well as eliminating one use plastic from the IAB, promoting reusing and recycling. ReciclArt festival art exhibition will take place at […]
IAB Honorary Fellow Giovanni Meola
The IAB is pleased to welcome Giovanni Meola, Honorary Fellow for 2019, who is also delivering a masterclass for selected students of the BA Acting 3rd Year. Giovanni Meola is a playwright, script-writer, theatre and film director, teacher, and artistic director for festival and theatre season. His dramatic production include work in language and dialect, […]
Workshop with La Tija puppet company
The master-class in puppetry involved the MA Dance and focused on the relation between body movement and puppet movement. During the classes, students experienced different puppetry technique (string puppets, marionettes etc.) and have additionally a seminar on the history, culture and theory of puppetry as a syncretic performing arts form world wide. At the end […]
Storyboard Art at the IAB with Giuseppe Cristiano
The Institute of the Arts Barcelona is pleased to host the Q&A and Webinar with prominent storyboard artist and designer Giuseppe Cristiano, on the 21th and 22nd of May at 2pm, within the MA programmes in Acting and Dance and the BA in Popular Music. Giuseppe Cristiano is one of the most important and […]
Make a Move project kicks off in Galway
The ‘Make a Move’ project got off to a great start in Galway, where Galway Theatre Festival hosted the first Pilot Art Incubator of the project from Thursday April 25th – Saturday May 4th. We welcomed Anne Corté (France), Dmitri Rekatchevski (Russia / France), Rodrigo Pardo (Argentina / France), Deise Nunes (Brazil / Norway), Sébastien […]
Visit by Luke James Bromilow from the House of Suarez dance company
This week we had the pleasure of having with us the Vogue dancer from Liverpool Luke James Bromilow, sent from the House of Suarez dance company to work with our commercial dance third year students and with the students involved in the choreography of the Netball World Cup opening event across the Acting and Dance BA […]
MA Acting Alumna selected by Digital Theatre+ and The Theatre Times for the IOTF
MA Acting Alumna Freya Treutmann has been selected by Digital Theatre+ and The Theatre Times to participate at the International Online Theatre Festival (1-30 April 2019) with her solo play “5475 Scratches”. What is “5475 Scratches”? Alternative micro-theatre play written and directed by Freya Treutmann, “5475 Scratches” performance is based on the character of Sisyphus […]
MA Acting Alumna Lyudmyla Honcharova
IAB MA Acting Alumna Lyudmyla Honcharova will be leader, organiser and main teacher of the Acting module for students with no acting background, at the prestigious Lviv Ivan Franko University (Ukraine). The course will start on the 15th of April. Contextually, Lyudmyla is the co-founder of training based company for people with no acting background, […]
MA Acting Alumna Sinéad Brady at the SOLO Fest in Warwick
e IAB is very please to announce that MA Acting Alumna Sinéad Brady will perform tonight, Wednesday 6th of February, at the SOLO Fest, hosted at the Warwick Arts Centre. SOLO Fest is a four day festival that showcases captivating theatre shows by solo performers. Audiences have the opportunity to see two shows each evening, along with FREE pop-up performances by […]
IAB Professor Keynote Speaker at the Medusa Creative Minds Symposium
Armando Rotondi, Associate Professor in Performance Theory and Programme Leader for the MA Acting, will be keynote speaker at the Medusa Creative Minds Symposium organised by Jasmin Vardimon Company on Friday 1st February 2019. The symposium, hosted by Iain MacKenzie (Co-Director, Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent) and Liz Moran (Director of Arts and Culture, University of Kent), […]
Webinar with Anna-Clara Blixt Modin, Founder and Chairman of Stagepool AB
The IAB is very pleased to host a webinar at MA Acting and MA Dance with an exceptional international guest: Anna-Clara Blixt Modin, Founder and Chairman of StagePool AB Anna-Clara Blixt Modin; entrepreneur and artist, trained as a musical artist at Kulturama in Stockholm, and has performed in musicals as well as feature films and TV. […]
Tolstoy’s adaptation “The Forged Coupon” by MA Acting alumnus published
The IAB is pleased to announce the publication of the collective play “The Forged Coupon”, adapted from homonymous novel by Leo Tolstoy and authored by former MA Acting Students Sinéad Brady, Gabriela Castillo, Caroline Galvis, Lyudmyla Honcharova, Rosie Lennox, Katie O’Byrne, Armando Rotondi, Freya Treutmann, and Samarth Trivedi. The play, coordinated by Armando Rotondi (Ass. Prof. in […]
International scholar, academic and playwright Darko Lukić at the IAB for “Make a Move” Project
IAB is very pleased to welcome on the 8th and 9th of January Prof. Darko Lukić within the interational Project “Make a Move”, co-funded by Creative Europe Programme. Main partners of the project are Creative Laboratory of Contemporary Theatre KRILA, Institute of Arts Barcelona, Galway Theatre Festival, and University of the Arts Targu Mures. The […]
Video interview with guest director Rob Watt
Theatre maker, Rob Watt has been a visiting director at the IAB for three years. In this video interview Rob talks about his background, work, The IAB and his recent production of 13 by Mike Bartlet.
Guest Lecturer Marilena Dara of the Jasmin Vardimon Company
IAB Masters Dance students were lucky enough to develop a piece with Guest Lecturer Marilena Dara, Jasmin Varidmon Company’s Rehearsal Director, over the last two weeks. OCEAN, Directed by Marilena, is a piece inspired by the Jasmin Vardimon Company’s production of MEDUSA. Giving the students the opportunity to experience the creative process behind this production. […]
Webinar on Public Institutions Politics in Culture, Theatre and Dance
IAB is very pleased to host, on Friday 23th of November, a webinar on Public Institutions Politics in Culture, Theatre and Dance, with international guest Dr Michal Denci, Cultural Referent for Bratislave Self-Governing Region. Denci, who also conduct research activity at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, will be in conversation with Armando Rotondi, […]
Webinar on Copyright, Copyleft and Creative Commons in Performing Arts
IAB is very pleased to host, on Friday 9th of November, a webinar on Copyright, Copyleft and Creative Commons in Performing Arts, with Dr Alfredo Esposito, Executive Producer of Subcava Sonora Music Label and one of the main European expert in rights and creative commons. Esposito will be in conversation with Armando Rotondi, Associate Professor […]
